What is recorded here
Mnemo knows the edge of the world because she has touched it. She is not the only one who has touched it. The chamber is not a room of record, but a edge of world where several lives stopped pretending they understood the difference. The chamber is not a room of record, but a edge of world where several lives stopped pretending they understood the difference.
In wet pasture on the floodplains of the Camoge River that forms townland boundary with Rathanny. One of a group of five possible ditch-barrows (LI040-270001/003/005-). An inland promontory fort (LI040-271001-) lies 15m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 138.02, AP 5/2101) as a circular cropmark of possible barrow. Faint trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff photograph labelled 138.02, oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (347) 24, 17) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 July 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is part of a small group of related barrows, suggesting a localized funerary or ritual landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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